South Park creators sued for tarnishing Big Bad Lollipop’s image

“The Lollipop King,” the “Big Bad Lollipop” and “The Lollipop Forest” – these concepts are probably not a normal topic of conversation for grown-up lawyers. But a handful of lawyers will be getting very familiar with these terms as they argue a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the creators of the animated Comedy Central show “South Park.”

Matt Stone and Trey Parker are being sued over the use of a character in a 2007 episode of the show.

Exavier Wardlaw has filed suit against the pair for including a character called The Lollipop King in a three-part Emmy-winning installment, titled “Imaginationland.”

In the documents filed in federal court in Pennsylvania, Wardlaw’s lawyers claim the character is a rip-off of his own creation, the Big Bad Lollipop from a show he came up with called “The Lollipop Forest.”

He goes on to allege the inclusion of the character in the controversial comedy tarnishes the image of his creation due the show’s “unwholesome language and sexual innuendo.”